Parler Site Offline After Amazon Web Services Pulls Hosting

Amazon hits back at Parler's antitrust lawsuit with extensive examples of its violent content, including death threats against politicians, tech CEOs, and BLM supporters
https://www.businessinsider.com/ama...suit-cites-violent-content-section-230-2021-1
  • Amazon responded on Tuesday to a lawsuit in which Parler accused the tech giant of violating antitrust law.
  • In its response, Amazon accused Parler of violating its contract by refusing to remove more than 100 examples of violent content, including death threats against prominent Democrats, Republicans, and tech executives as well as supporters of Black Lives Matter.
  • Amazon also cited Section 230 as part of its defense against Parler's claims that Amazon conspired with Twitter to hurt Parler's business by kicking it off AWS.
  • Major tech companies including Apple and Google cut ties with Parler in the past week as it became clear that far-right insurrectionists used the social-media platform to organize before the US Capitol riot.
Amazon on Tuesday filed its response to an antitrust suit brought against it by Parler, arguing that the social-media upstart's refusal to remove violent content from its platform violated its contract and that Parler had failed to prove any antitrust claims.

Parler sued Amazon on Monday after the tech giant booted the platform from its web-hosting service, Amazon Web Services, amid a public outcry over Parler's role in enabling far-right insurrectionists to organize and plan last week's attack at the US Capitol.

"This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling viewpoints. It is not about a conspiracy to restrain trade," Amazon argued in the court filing. "Instead, this case is about Parler's demonstrated unwillingness and inability to remove... content that threatens the public safety, such as by inciting and planning the rape, torture, and assassination of named public officials and private citizens."

Parler did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
 
Clearly all of these social media sites need to find a better way to control the content being posted and do it in as close to real time as possible.
 
CaptainObvious said:
Clearly all of these social media sites need to find a better way to control the content being posted and do it in as close to real time as possible.
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yes, clearly millions of posts made a day must be carefully reviewed in real time by sensible humans
 
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To do otherwise just puts these big tech companies as the Ministry of Truth to determine who they will and won't support.
I didn't say it would be easy, but it is necessary unless we all want to live under the boot of corporations
 
We don't need Parler, let's just meet up on Telegram.
Telegram: How about No

Telegram, a recent haven for the far right, purges extremist content
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...ar-right-purges-extremist-content/ar-BB1cJHhF

Telegram, a Dubai-based chat app that has attracted a surge of new users, including some far-right Trump supporters fleeing purges at other sites, has begun a rare purge of American extremist content.

At least 15 extremist Telegram channels — akin to chatrooms where the founders have moderating power — have recently been banned, according to a tally by NBC News. Content has been censored on several others.

Some pro-Trump zealots have moved to Telegram in recent days to plan violence on Jan. 20, the day Joe Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated.

One of the deleted channels, which proclaimed itself to be "eco-fascist," started in early June, hosting white supremacist content from its beginning. In the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.Capitol, its users posted Army manuals with bombmaking and munitions-making information.

Megan Squire, a professor of computer science at Elon University and a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups, said that while Telegram's approach to moderating extremist content tends to be "scattershot," many of the recent bans are new.

"A lot of these channels that have been banned in the last day have been up for months or years," Squire said. "I've been personally attacked on these channels before, and this is definitely new action on their part."

Despite the deletions, a number of other channels that are open to the public are still actively posting explicitly white supremacist and pro-Nazi content.

"We have seen some incredible growth on our humble channel over the past few days," wrote a moderator of one explicitly Nazi channel.

"We are working on alternative communication methods, but it appears several large channels are getting removed by Telegram as I type this."

Telegram did not respond to request for comment. The company, founded in 2013 by Pavel Durov, a Russian native who fled Vladimir Putin's government, has historically been reluctant to moderate its users. It began deleting openly-pro ISIS channels only in 2015, after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 125 people.

Right-wing extremist content has percolated for years on social media, and major platforms have been reluctant to censor it. Facebook banned content like claims of white supremacy in 2019, and Twitter in 2018 began banning some high-profile accounts that violated its policies on abuse and harassment.

Those efforts were accelerated after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week, however. Twitter banned more than 70,000 accounts that pushed QAnon conspiracy theories, and it and Facebook have banned Trump's accounts, citing fears that he will use them to incite more violence.

Some conservative users had flocked to Telegram from Parler, a Twitter-like platform regarded as a safe haven for right-wing speech. But Apple and Google recently removed the Parler app from their app stores, and Amazon Web Services, which hosted the service, kicked it off, saying it violated its terms of service. Parler's future remains uncertain, and its CEO has publicly doubted whether it will return.

On Tuesday, Durov posted that Telegram had passed 500 million monthly users, with 25 million of them having joined in the previous three days. There's little indication that pro-Trump extremists make up a sizable proportion of those users. The vast majority of new users were from Asia, Europe and Latin America, he said.

He added that people "no longer want to be held hostage by tech monopolies," an apparent reference to WhatsApp's changing its terms of service. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, is Telegram's closest competitor.

Telegram also flagged an account that purported to be Trump's, which for years had archived Trump's tweets but in recent days began posting official White House statements, with a red "SCAM" tag Wednesday.

Former Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi, an NBC News national security analyst, said such crackdowns "help to keep the violent extremists off-balance and wondering where to go next."

"As they scramble to find new homes, they inevitably make mistakes and leave clues and trails that law enforcement can use to identify and defeat them," Figliuzzi said.
 
gwb-trading said:
We don't need Parler, let's just meet up on Telegram.
Telegram: How about No

Telegram, a recent haven for the far right, purges extremist content
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...ar-right-purges-extremist-content/ar-BB1cJHhF

Telegram, a Dubai-based chat app that has attracted a surge of new users, including some far-right Trump supporters fleeing purges at other sites, has begun a rare purge of American extremist content.

At least 15 extremist Telegram channels — akin to chatrooms where the founders have moderating power — have recently been banned, according to a tally by NBC News. Content has been censored on several others.

Some pro-Trump zealots have moved to Telegram in recent days to plan violence on Jan. 20, the day Joe Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated.

One of the deleted channels, which proclaimed itself to be "eco-fascist," started in early June, hosting white supremacist content from its beginning. In the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S.Capitol, its users posted Army manuals with bombmaking and munitions-making information.

Megan Squire, a professor of computer science at Elon University and a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist groups, said that while Telegram's approach to moderating extremist content tends to be "scattershot," many of the recent bans are new.

"A lot of these channels that have been banned in the last day have been up for months or years," Squire said. "I've been personally attacked on these channels before, and this is definitely new action on their part."

Despite the deletions, a number of other channels that are open to the public are still actively posting explicitly white supremacist and pro-Nazi content.

"We have seen some incredible growth on our humble channel over the past few days," wrote a moderator of one explicitly Nazi channel.

"We are working on alternative communication methods, but it appears several large channels are getting removed by Telegram as I type this."

Telegram did not respond to request for comment. The company, founded in 2013 by Pavel Durov, a Russian native who fled Vladimir Putin's government, has historically been reluctant to moderate its users. It began deleting openly-pro ISIS channels only in 2015, after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 125 people.

Right-wing extremist content has percolated for years on social media, and major platforms have been reluctant to censor it. Facebook banned content like claims of white supremacy in 2019, and Twitter in 2018 began banning some high-profile accounts that violated its policies on abuse and harassment.

Those efforts were accelerated after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last week, however. Twitter banned more than 70,000 accounts that pushed QAnon conspiracy theories, and it and Facebook have banned Trump's accounts, citing fears that he will use them to incite more violence.

Some conservative users had flocked to Telegram from Parler, a Twitter-like platform regarded as a safe haven for right-wing speech. But Apple and Google recently removed the Parler app from their app stores, and Amazon Web Services, which hosted the service, kicked it off, saying it violated its terms of service. Parler's future remains uncertain, and its CEO has publicly doubted whether it will return.

On Tuesday, Durov posted that Telegram had passed 500 million monthly users, with 25 million of them having joined in the previous three days. There's little indication that pro-Trump extremists make up a sizable proportion of those users. The vast majority of new users were from Asia, Europe and Latin America, he said.

He added that people "no longer want to be held hostage by tech monopolies," an apparent reference to WhatsApp's changing its terms of service. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, is Telegram's closest competitor.

Telegram also flagged an account that purported to be Trump's, which for years had archived Trump's tweets but in recent days began posting official White House statements, with a red "SCAM" tag Wednesday.

Former Assistant FBI Director Frank Figliuzzi, an NBC News national security analyst, said such crackdowns "help to keep the violent extremists off-balance and wondering where to go next."

"As they scramble to find new homes, they inevitably make mistakes and leave clues and trails that law enforcement can use to identify and defeat them," Figliuzzi said.
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#LearnToCode
 
Pussies Triggered haha

Maybe they should read how FB makes money :).

Ads are targeted via FB and Google searches in many cases. Companies they would support and buy from will see drops in clicks and loss of business for the day.

Also they are paid for in advance so a 12 hour minor drop in searches does nothing.



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